And costume is so important for an actor. It ABSOLUTELY helps to get into character; it's the CLOSEST THING to you, it touches you. Some actors LIKE to GO into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

Skydiving is special because it's ALMOST the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We LIVE in such a stimulated, CONNECTED, busy WORLD - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the LANDSCAPE is incredibly peaceful.

Traits LIKE HUMILITY, courage, and empathy are easily OVERLOOKED - but it's immensely IMPORTANT to FIND them in your closest relationships.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge GAP between the human brain and that of our closest living RELATIVES, the anthropoid apes. Whole GROUPS of hominids with INFERIOR BRAINS could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

JOE Louis was one of my closest friends.... I'm a great boxing FAN. I used to GO to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, EVERY Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside.

I LOVE meeting NEW people. I have been so LUCKY to MEET some of my closest friends on SET like James Gunn, Nathan Fillion, and Aly Michalka.

I don't think I've EVER had a MENTOR. The closest thing is my FRIEND Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a LONG time before I made it.

America has lost the MORAL high GROUND with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by USING TACTICS outlawed by international treaty and condemned by EVEN our closest friends.

My CLOSEST FRIEND is canine. I have PRECIOUS few CLOSE FRIENDS, and most of them are not actors.

I was NEVER OJ's closest pal, and the MEDIA WOULD say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy EITHER.

I love to GAMBLE, always have! In Georgia there is not a casino, so the closest THING to a slot MACHINE is a scratch TICKET!

The closest I've come to knowing myself is in LOSING myself. That's why I LOVED football before I loved MUSIC. I COULD lose myself in it.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, EVERYTHING's great. You're a SINGER; your dreams have come true.' But, STILL, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're GROWING up, it stays with you and you WONDER if they're true.

Kurt and I weren't the CLOSEST of friends, but I KNEW him well ENOUGH to be DEVASTATED by his death. For such a QUIET person, he was so excited about having a child.

In CLOSING I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also ENJOYED the friendship of countless THOUSANDS of white MEN whom I CLASS as among my closest friends.